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About
A regime-driven rotation strategy that uses leverage-heavy tech bets and volatility/defensive assets to try to ride up markets and protect in down markets. Signals rely on price momentum and RSI, with daily rebalancing to pick and weight a small group of ETFs.
What you need to know in simple terms:
- Tickers are symbols for funds (ETFs) that track different baskets of stocks or strategies. Examples used here include QQQ (tech-heavy Nasdaq), SPY (S&P 500), TQQQ (3x Nasdaq leverage), UPRO (3x S&P leverage), TECL (3x tech), SOXL (semiconductors), QQQ, SQQQ (inverse Nasdaq), UVXY and VIXY (volatility-related funds), BIL/SHV (short-term Treasuries/defensive bonds), TMF (long-duration Treasuries), SVXY (short VIX exposure), etc.
- The system first judges the market regime (is the market in a favorable, rising phase or a weak, falling/uncertain phase?). It does this by comparing current prices to moving averages (short to medium term) and by looking at momentum signals.
- Depending on regime, it rotates into a small set of assets. In a bull market, it tends to favor leveraged tech bets (like TQQQ, SOXL, TECL, UPRO) and may use UVXY/VIXY as hedges if volatility signals are strong. In a bear or choppy market, it shifts toward hedges or more defensive exposure (inverse or volatility-proxy assets, or bond-like funds).
- Signals come from RSI (overbought/oversold indicators) and whether an asset’s price is above its moving average. The strategy also ranks assets by recent performance (moving-average-based returns, cumulative returns) to pick top candidates and assign weights (sometimes heavily to a few top picks and smaller allocations to others).
- Everything is rebalanced daily, so positions can change day to day as conditions shift.
- In plain terms: it’s a complex, rules-based system that tries to ride tech momentum with multipliers when things look good, while pivoting to hedges and safer bets when momentum fades, using a structured set of indicators to guide decisions.
Out-of-sample, regime-rotating leverage strategy aims to ride tech momentum and hedge risk. Annualized return ~52% vs SPY ~20%; max drawdown ~44% vs ~19%. Calmar ~1.17—higher upside for investors with tolerance for more volatility.
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Performance
Compared to selected benchmarks
| Alpha | Beta | R2 | R | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.91 | 1.23 | 0.15 | 0.39 |
Performance Metrics
| Cumulative Return | Annualized Return | Trailing 1M Return | Trailing 3M Return | Sharpe Ratio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 526.2% | 13.98% | -1.77% | 0.2% | 0.87 | |
| 68,601,718.25% | 160.72% | -14.31% | -5.59% | 2.07 |
Initial Investment
$10,000.00
Final Value
$6,860,181,824.94Regulatory Fees
$26,177,545.81
Total Slippage
$188,219,417.07
Invest in this strategy
OOS Start Date
Feb 8, 2024
Trading Setting
Daily
Type
Stocks
Category
Regime-based, leveraged tech, volatility hedging, dynamic rotation, momentum
Tickers in this symphonyThis symphony trades 31 assets in total
Ticker
Type
BIL
State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF
Stocks
BND
Vanguard Total Bond Market
Stocks
BSV
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF
Stocks
BTAL
AGF U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta Fund
Stocks
DIA
State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust
Stocks
IEF
iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF
Stocks
IWM
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
Stocks
PSQ
ProShares Short QQQ
Stocks
QQQ
Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1
Stocks
SCO
ProShares UltraShort Bloomberg Crude Oil
Stocks